“The Fantastic Four: First Steps” grossed $118 million at the domestic box office over the weekend—largely meeting earlier projections, but still placing it behind “Superman” for the biggest superhero film opening of 2025 so far.

First Steps is coming in lighter than projections in its first box office weekend with $117.6 million. Still records were broken.

Both Marvel Studios and DC Studios released major films in their respective franchises this month, and now that both opening weekends have passed, Superman stands as the winner — though not by much. In its first weekend out,

It’s been a long time coming, but the Fantastic Four finally have a good movie to their name. The Fantastic Four: First Steps may not be perfect, as IGN’s Clint Gage said in his 7/10 review, but it gets the fundamentals right: the Four themselves are well cast,

The Fantastic Four’s claim to be “The World’s Greatest Comic Magazine” has, over the course of its nearly 64 years, often been validated; The first superhero team out of Marvel Comics (pre-dating both The Avengers and the X-Men) sees some of Jack Kirby’s wildest and most exciting work and the publisher’s most ambitious sci-fi writing.